Improved fabric whereof to make collars, cuffs, bosoms



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WILLIAM E. LOCKWOOD, or" PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent N $2,851, a m 20,1869

IMPROVED FABRIC wnzmnor' TO MAKE commas, earns, BOSOMS, AND OTHER ARTI-CLES OI WEARING-APPAREL.

The Schedule referred to these Letters Patent and making par't of thesame.

To all whom it may concem I 7 Be it known that I,W1LLIA1\I E; Locnwoon,of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Fabric, whereofto make Collars, Cuffs, Bosomsfand other Articles of fearing-Apparel;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention is an improvement in the fabric of which the late- WalterHunt made shirt-collars, for which Letters Patent were granted to him011 the 1st day of January, 1856; and consists of a method of treatingtextile fabrics of coarse and cheap muslin, so as to give them theappearance of fine linen.

The said Walter Hunt made improved collar-fabrics, from which hemanufactured sham shirt-collars, &c., of a cheap textile fabric, and sobacked or stiffened the same, as to dispense with the necessity of theusual seams and stitches.

The objection to these stiffened fabrics is, that their surface retainsthe appearance of common muslin. It

is theobject of my invention to improve these fabrics,

so as. to make them resemble the finest starched linen. I have carriedmy improvement into practice in different modes, and will now proceed todescribe those I prefer.

I use a very thin coarse muslin, and saturate it with any thin sizing orstiffening. After is has been sutticiently dried, I subject it to theaction of embossing.-

rolls or dies, which. compress the threads and fibres of the muslin, andcause the surface to be so embossed as to present a perfect ornearly-perfect resemblance to a pure linen fabric.

From the material thus prepared, seamless shirt-- collars, cufls,bosoms, and similar articles of wearingapparel may be cut, which, byreason of their lightness and delicacy, are suitable forsmnmer-wear.

My second "method is to coat the coarse muslin at the back with amixture of suitable sizing and whiting, kaoline, or other, white powder,and then to subject it to the action of the rolls or dies, the backingin this case rendering the'fabric stifi'er than that first dc- -$cribed,while the muslin surface is converted, bythe method above described,intoone having the appearance of genuine linen.

Sham shirt-collars may be manufactured out of either of theabove-described fabrics, so cheaply that they can be sold for lessthanthe cost of washing and dressingordinary linen collars.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters'Patture of seamlessshirt-collars, and similar article's, prepared substantially as and forthe purpose above described.

2. Shirt-collars, cuffs, bosoins, and similar articles,

made out of either of the above-described improved fabrics, as newarticles of manufacture.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, inthepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

- WILLIAM E, LOOKWOOIX \Vitnesses:

A. B. Sronerrron, H. Howson.

